free association in psychoanalysis, verbal expression by the patient of ideas as they arrive spontaneously, without censoring or withholding anything, no matter how distressing, embarrassing, trivial, or irrelevant it may seem. The analyst forms tentative explanations of the patient's associations and experiences but withholds them until they are validated by more material and until the patient is in a receptive frame of mind.

association test one based on associative reaction, usually by mentioning words to a patient and noting what other words he or she gives as the ones called to mind; see association (def. 4).

free as·so·ci·a·tion

an investigative psychoanalytic technique in which the patient verbalizes, without reservation or censor, the passing contents of his or her mind; the verbalized conflicts that emerge constitute resistances that are the basis of the psychoanalyst's interpretations.

free association

n.

1. A spontaneous, logically unconstrained and undirected association of ideas, emotions, and feelings.

2. A psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's articulation of free associations is encouraged in order to reveal unconscious thoughts and emotions, such as traumatic experiences that have been repressed.

free association

2 spontaneous verbalization of thoughts and emotions that enter the consciousness during psychoanalysis. It is the basis of classical freudian analysis and also of jungian type analysis.

free association

Psychoanalysis Spontaneous, uncensored verbalization by a Pt of whatever comes to mind. See Word association test.

free as·so·ci·a·tion

(frē ă-sō'sē-ā'shŭn)

An investigative psychoanalytic technique in which the patient verbalizes, without reservation or censorship, the passing contents of his or her mind; the conflicts verbalized are the basis of the psychoanalyst's interpretations.

free association

A method used in psychoanalysis to derive data from the unconscious content of the mind. The subject articulates his or her spontaneous, and deliberately unrestricted, association of mental images.

Furthermore, the existing free associations (Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau), overseas territories (Pitcairn, Wallis and Futuna Islands) and unincorporated territories (Guam) of permanent UN Security Council members (France, the United Kingdom and the United States) should not be disturbed as the proposed solution will then fail to secure the assent of the UN Security Council.

The court noted that the Supreme Court has not definitively answered the question of whether the Constitution prohibits a state or its actors from regulating the private, consensual sexual behavior of adults, even though constitutionally guaranteed rights of free association and privacy have been found in several provisions of the Constitution.

He's the man who first made it possible to speak of sex and cigars in the same breath, who championed free association and fees for its interpretation, and who transformed Oedipus from a myth to a complex.

She cites the "Compact of Free Association, which says that the United States may not dispose of or store radioactive materials in the Republic of the Marshall Islands in an amount or manner which would be hazardous to public health or safety.

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